The emperor was not happy in his heart, but the queen mother seemed to think that it was a good idea, and said, "What's wrong with this? The girl is nineteen years old this year, older, but also stable. He has seen the mourning family, gentle and beautiful, and the etiquette is also excellent. Her mother has been bedridden for more than a year, and she has been serving decoction at the bedside, and she is very filial. Compared with the ones selected by the mourning family before, she is more than ten times stronger than her appearance and family background. The emperor has already got a good concubine, doesn't he want to see your brother get a beautiful concubine too? ”

The emperor could only bite the bullet and say: "General Fan is the pillar of the country, guarding Liaodong for the Great Chu Town, and he has worked hard. If he marries his sister to the imperial brother as a side concubine, he will be too wronged by other girls. Don't talk about the old friendship between General Fan and the imperial brother, in the old days, Fan Benzhang was just a pro-guard commander in the Guangping Palace, but now he is a border guard, and his status is no longer the same, how can it be compared? ”

The Queen Mother said disapprerovingly: "Is it possible to let the sister of the old guard be the princess and concubine?" Your brother must be unwilling in his heart. ”

The emperor smiled and said, "Queen Mother, let's let the Fan family choose another son-in-law, why bother to call someone else's daughter a concubine?" What's more, since General Fan is a general of this dynasty, how can he make him a relative? Wouldn't that be detrimental to his reputation? ”

The Queen Mother's face sank slightly: "What about the relatives?" Are relatives looked down upon? The Jiang family is also a relative, who in the court dares to underestimate it?! Fan Benzhang has great achievements, if because he married his sister to the old master and became a side concubine, others will say that he is not a hero, then these people are just fools. What are they doing?! ”

The emperor choked a little, and after a long time said, "The queen mother doesn't need to be angry with her son here. Who the imperial brother wants to marry as a side concubine depends on the meaning of the imperial brother. I don't think the royal brother will accept this marriage. ”

The Queen Mother paused. Cai said: "Your imperial brother is the most sensible and will understand the hard work of the queen mother." The Fan family will definitely not refuse this marriage. There is only this one girl in General Fan's family who has not yet married, and there are many people in the court who are staring at this marriage. She entered the Guangping Palace, which is really reassuring. Your royal brother's people will never get along with you. What else do you have to worry about? ”

The emperor wanted to smile bitterly, no matter who married the girl of the Fan family, he was not so worried. The king of Guangping alone can't do it! King Guangping did not interact with courtiers, and in addition to building the Nanhou Mansion on weekdays, only a few clans and royal relatives were still close to him, but this did not affect his prestige in the clan. If he gets the support of the generals in the army again. He is even more of a threat to himself. The emperor can't say anything about it in the court. Not all of those ministers were loyal to him, and he had no confidence that he could compete with the king of Guangping, who married the daughter of the Fan family.

Although the emperor is very sure that there is a high probability that the king of Guangping will not agree to this marriage, if the queen mother persuades him with the reason of stabilizing the overall situation and winning the support of the military, he will probably nod, right? However, the Empress Dowager's intention was to let King Guangping help the emperor, hoping that their brothers would support each other, but the emperor could not trust his brother no matter what......

In the end, the emperor left Cining Palace in annoyance, and he instructed his henchmen and eunuchs to inquire about the Fan family's daughters entering the palace to ask for peace. In less than half a day, it paid off.

Fan Benzhang's sister-in-law did follow her mother into the palace a few days ago to greet the Queen Mother. She is indeed nineteen years old this year. Not yet married. It's not because there is anything wrong with the girl, nor because of filial piety, but because she once set a marriage before, but her fiancé died of illness three years ago, and she has remained unmarried to this day.

At that time, Fan Benzhang had not yet made a fortune, just an ordinary middle-level general, and the family set for his sister was not a very prominent family, but he had some fame in his hometown. In comparison, the Fan family is much thinner, so the fiancé of the Fan family's younger sister once thought of letting her stay a widow for the rest of her life. The Fan family was not happy, and wrote to ask what Fan Benzhang meant, and he was also unhappy.

The brother-in-law who had no chance was a sick man, and the matchmaker and the man deliberately concealed this fact when discussing marriage, intending to trick a healthy daughter-in-law into entering the door, so as to open up branches for the man. The Fan family has been dissatisfied since they found out, but the marriage contract has been decided, and they can only endure it again and again for the sake of their daughter's reputation. Fan Benzhang was guarding in Liaodong, and he also sent precious medicinal materials back to his hometown to replenish his future brother-in-law's body. It's a pity that all this work was in vain. The other party was born with a deficiency disease, as well as a heart disease, it was difficult to live to grow up, and the marriage period was delayed again and again, and finally died three years ago.

The man asked Fan Xiaomei to watch the widow, but the Fan family refused, and the two families quarreled for three years, and Fan Xiaomei stayed for three years. Three years ago, Fan Benzhang made great military achievements and became a general guarding the border in Liaodong. The brother-in-law's family was involved in the Ying Wang case because of their in-laws, and the momentum was not as good as before. Under the advantages of the other, Fan Xiaomei finally got rid of the fate of being a widow for a lifetime. However, after this incident, her reputation in her hometown was damaged, and it was difficult to say goodbye, so Mrs. Fan brought her to the capital. But she is at this age, it is not easy to say that she is a good family, and her brother's official position is so high, if he marries low, wouldn't he be wronged? General Fan is also a general guarding one side in Liaodong, and the family is very cautious about choosing in-laws, and they can't bear to see Fan Xiaomei suffer more torture after experiencing a failed marriage contract, so she has not been able to decide on the marriage for a long time.

Mrs. Fan took Fan Xiaomei into the palace to see the Queen Mother, in fact, she also wanted to ask the Queen Mother for help and find a good marriage for her daughter. They didn't think that the Queen Mother would marry Fan Xiaomei to King Guangping as a side concubine. However, as the Queen Mother said, Fan Benzhang was the commander of the personal guard of the Guangping Palace, and his family was quite familiar with the King of Guangping, and the relationship was also very good. If the Queen Mother decrees marriage, the Fan family will not have much resistance, and they will not even care about the name of the side concubine.

Everyone knows that the side concubine that King Guangping wants to marry is actually no different from the step-concubine, and he will not marry another main room and press on the side room. The only thing to worry about is that even if the side concubine gives birth to a child, she will not be able to shake the status of Gao Zhen, the eldest son born to the concubine. However, for the Fan family, who is already close to the father and son of King Guangping, this should not be a problem.

The emperor was a little restless. He didn't think it would work like this. It is true that King Guangping is still recuperating, but he may enter the palace at any time to ask the Queen Mother for peace, what if the Queen Mother mentions family affairs as soon as she sees him?

Rather than letting other people who don't know the details marry the sister of the general who guards the border. has the opportunity to use this relationship to cause trouble for the emperor, so it is better to let this girl marry directly into the royal family.

As long as the Queen Mother said so, King Guangping would really listen to it, and maybe he would accept the candidate for the side concubine without saying a word.

The emperor was upset, and sat behind the imperial case and flipped through the folds, but in fact, he didn't read a word.

The confidant eunuch cautiously came in to report: "Your Majesty, Concubine Duan ordered the imperial dining room to prepare soup for the emperor to nourish yin and reduce fire. The emperor wants to taste it? ”

The emperor's hand moved, yes, the imperial doctor recently took his pulse. said that he had some false fire, and asked him to use some soup to nourish yin and reduce fire, and he also felt very bored in his heart. Maybe he was so restless because of the false fire.

He nodded.

A palace maid with a beautiful face walked in from outside the hall with a soup cup in her hand. Serve on the royal case. The emperor waved his hand casually: "Put it down." I'll use it later. ”

"Yes." The palace maid responded softly and placed the soup cup firmly on the side of the desk. She didn't retreat directly, but stood aside and listened to the instructions.

The emperor inadvertently glanced at her, and couldn't help but be stunned: "You are also from the Qianqing Palace?" "It seems to be a little eye-catching.

The palace maid replied unhurriedly: "Back to the emperor, the slave maid Wen Shan, who was originally the son of the Le'an Wangfu family, entered the palace with the car, and has been working as an errand in the Wuying Palace. It was only transferred to the Qianqing Palace at the end of last month. ”

The emperor suddenly realized that he was the son of the family when he was in the palace. At the age of sixteen or seventeen years old, when he entered the East Palace, she was probably just a little girl who sprinkled the sweep, so he had never seen it. When he and Empress Xie became the masters of the East Palace, the people waiting around him, except for some close attendants, were almost all the original staff of the East Palace. It wasn't until he ascended the throne as emperor that he gradually dispersed the old people in the East Palace and reused them back in the hidden mansion. Because the palace is much larger than the Le'an Palace, and there is no need for small maids, some little girls who have children are also called in to be palace maids. That's when this maid came in, right? However, he rarely goes to Wuying Hall on weekdays, so naturally he has no impression of her.

Queen Xie has always been jealous, and beautiful maids are not allowed to appear by his side, so after he became the master of the Qianqing Palace, the people who waited close to him were eunuchs, and even if there were palace maids, they were all mediocre in appearance. Later, the queen "fell ill", and the queen mother took over the palace affairs, and the grandmothers in Cining Palace did not care much about the beauty of the palace maids waiting next to the emperor, so they only waited carefully in their daily life and diet, and never meant to change people. Today, when the emperor saw that this palace maid had a beautiful appearance, crystal skin, and good words and deeds, he remembered that it had been a month since Concubine Duan took over the palace affairs. Probably only a virtuous and generous woman like her would arrange a beautiful and dignified palace maid to the emperor's side, right? It's still the old man of the hidden mansion, and it couldn't be more reliable. Even if the emperor has no intention of pampering, it is pleasing to the eye.

The Emperor sighed, the Empress had disappointed him too much. If she hadn't gone mad at this time, maybe he would have discussed something with her, instead of being like now, with nowhere to talk about his heart.

The palace maid Wen Shan spoke again: "Your Majesty, the soup is about to be cold, I am afraid that the medicine is damaged, please use it quickly." ”

The Emperor smiled: "You are a bold one. He grabbed the bowl casually, drank all the soup in one go, and put the bowl down at will.

Wen Shan carefully held the bowl and retreated, and said without humility or arrogance: "Where is the duty of the slave and maid, I dare not be negligent." ”

The emperor didn't expect her to be able to say such a sentence, so he couldn't help but look at her twice, and suddenly his heart moved.

The Queen Mother made up her mind to marry the little sister of the Fan family to King Guangping as a side concubine, and he couldn't stop him as a son, but if he went to King Guangping, he also arranged an eye and ear for him to keep an eye on his brother's words and deeds......

The emperor glanced at Wen Shan a few more times, and even the henchmen and eunuchs around him were secretly surprised, wondering if this palace maid had entered the emperor's eyes and was about to fly on the branches?

But what the emperor thought in his heart was: "The old person of Qiandi is more reliable than others, and her parents and family are also in my hands." Judging by this woman's good looks, she also has some courage, maybe it can really come in handy. I just don't know what the Queen Mother will think......"

At this time, the king of Guangping and Gao Zhen didn't know that the queen mother and the emperor had already made up their minds to stuff people into their Guangping palace. After Gao Zhen left the palace, he went back to the palace and told his father about the process of entering the palace, and then without waiting for the latter's lesson, he hurriedly retreated and went straight to the Jiannan Marquis's mansion. (To be continued......)